This is basically my feeling about it, as well. Even if I'm wrong and there is no afterlife, everyone I've known well who has died has reached a point when they felt ready to die, and in no case did this appear to me to be exclusively because of the suffering caused by their illness, nor were most of them religious. I expect to reach that point myself eventually. I'm at peace with that, and as it happens, I've just re-written my living will to reflect it. Life is good, but good things turn bad if they're excessively prolonged.
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Date: 2010-01-21 12:23 pm (UTC)